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The following are updates on local athletes at the collegiate level.
Emily Tubert (Burroughs High, 2010) freshman, Arkansas University golf: Most athletes need time to get acclimated after jumping to the next level of competition. Tubert, on the other...

This is the second in a four-part series looking back on the sports accomplishments of the four local high schools over the past school year. This installment is Burroughs High:
Records were broken, long standing droughts were erased, state competition...

There is a philosophy in the Tubert family that all of its members live by: "This is your journey, and what do you want to do with it?"
Following that credo, father Marcelo has become a successful actor and voice-over artist and mother Lori is a...

BOYS' GOLF
Burroughs, Burbank in Pacific League Match No. 2: The Indians placed second to remain in the runner-up spot among Pacific League teams in a contest Thursday at De Bell Golf Club.
League-leading Arcadia won the match with a team total of 377....

A bare flower bed at Luther Burbank Middle School was transformed Thursday when students, staff and community volunteers marked Earth Day by installing a native-plant garden designed to capture rain water.
The 3,900-square-feet plot near the front...

Bits and pieces from the local sports scene.
Fielder awarded for her leadership: Drake University junior women's soccer player Melanie Fielder — a Burbank High graduate — has been named one of the top juniors at the college as part of the...

Becca Murray got her first taste of collegiate national championship competition as a freshman last season at Texas A&M University. However, as some her teammates were busy winning a title at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships, Murray wasn't...

GLENDALE — With control of its own destiny and championship proposition, Glendale Community College's baseball team rose to its opportunity in every imaginable facet of the game.
Supplemented by flawless defense, the Vaqueros were privy to yet...

GLENDALE — Rest was hard to come by for Alex Sarkissian on Sunday.
But rewards were abundant, as the Glendale Community College standout became the first player in school history to win the Ojai Valley Tournament community college singles title,...

BURBANK — Emily Tubert is surely getting the most out of her freshman college season.
Tubert, a Burroughs High graduate and true freshman at the University of Arkansas, has had a first season with the Razorbacks' women's golf team filled with...

Bits and pieces from the local sports scene:
Toluca player takes first in Golden Arm competition: The Fightin' Titans, a Toluca Baseball Pony League team, enjoyed modest success recently at a Cooperstown Dreams Park Tournament.
During the event in New...

The July 12 meeting of the Burbank Rotary Club was an exciting and memorable gathering indeed. For not only was it the inaugural meeting of new president Jonathan Taylor (who announced that he was newlywed), but the Invocation was given by his father,...